I have been programming since I was in high school, and my favorite computer was my Amiga 2000, as that is what I learned to program in C on, and was just a great computer.

I have been an advocate about unit testing since 1999, and believe we can get better code by getting before the user more frequently so we can narrow the solution to what they really want, as users don't really know what they want, initially.

I am comfortable with many languages, but am trying to understand how to program in functional languages, giving up while loops is very difficult for me in designing applications. :)

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Praying to people outside the Trinity@brilliant - If someone is in a place where you cannot talk to them easily, such as the gulf between us and those that have passed on, then we use the term prayer for how we talk to them. When I was younger I would just carry on conversations with Jesus as a friend, people would call that prayer, I just called it talking with a dear friend. It is semantics.

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Could there have been a pragmatic purpose for the OT legal dietary restrictions?@audio.zoom - A law doesn't have to be logical to be made, as I mentioned, if your goal is to have a group stand out from others, then having a different ritual or law would help achieve this, which can make sense if God's desire is to help them understand that they will be different than non-believers, and some specific rituals will help unite them as a group.

Is God capable of ever doing wrong?I am curious how you define doing wrong. Is this similar to the argument about whether there is a rock so heavy that God can't move it? If so then closing the question makes sense.

What is the theological background of the WWJD movement?It is a feel-good movement that not only isn't backed by Scripture, but by observing the followers, they aren't necessarily following the question. If you read the risks taken by the characters in "In His Steps", by Charles Sheldon, you will see that doing what Jesus would do would change many aspects of the lives of basically everyone, and really annoy people around us.

Can these three “2nd greatest commandments” be put into one sentence?@JimThio - You don't pray for either side to win, but for God's will to be done, and if possible protect our troops, but praying that the terrorists are killed is wrong, as Jesus died for them as he died for us. Pray always that we are available to do God's will, and that we accept it, though we may feel it is wrong, much as Jonah didn't want to go to Ninevah because he wanted them to be destroyed, and if he went they would repent. he didn't want to help God, but in the end he agreed to.